From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,fa07350fd81f7563,start X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,fa07350fd81f7563,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,80e8e0df8032d89e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-14 10:52:17 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!ois!beckwb From: beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith) Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future? Message-ID: Organization: Objective Interface Systems, Inc. X-Newsreader: TIN version 1.2 PL2 References: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 13:53:52 GMT Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:6905 comp.lang.c++:32792 comp.object:7369 Date: 1994-10-14T13:53:52+00:00 List-Id: Bernie Thompson (bernie_thompson@bocaraton.ibm.com) wrote: : In , srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes: : > As an example of what Lucky is referring to, Taligent (an IBM/Apple/HP joint : >effort) is releasing this summer a developer release of the TAE (Taligent : >Application Environment) - a collection of 100 frameworks, comprising over : >2000 C++ classes and over 30,000 member functions, and who knows how many : >million lines of C++ code. : > Convert? Certainly not any customer of TeamAda member IBM. IBM's future : >OO plans will be based on its' VisualAge and VisualGen. : >Greg Aharonian : VisualAge uses SOM as its underlying object binding method. : Taligent will provide SOM wrappers for its C++ classes. : SOM is language-neutral. Although ADA bindings havn't yet been : produced (to my knowledge), there is nothing to prevent it. : And that would mean Ada code could call/subclass/etc all of that : C++ code. OIS and MITRE have written an IDL to Ada 95 mapping document. Someone _is_ working on a SOM/Ada 95 product. Talk to oec@ocsystems.com. : The judgements here are that use of anything other than C++ would be : rejected by the marketplace. You guys are going to miss the boat with this kind of thinking. Watch out. Your competition thinks Ada is a crucial technology and market. You've been warned. : Bernie ... Bill -- e-mail: Bill.Beckwith@ois.com | Team Ada Objective Interface Systems, Inc. | dist, full O-O 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 250 | multithreading Reston, VA 22091-5448 U.S.A. | built in